STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Residents of this football-crazed city along the Ohio River had an uneasy night Saturday as they await the verdicts in a sexual assault case that has drawn unwanted interest from around the world.

Judge Thomas Lipps said he will announce his decisions at 10 a.m. today. On trial in Jefferson County Juvenile Court are two Steubenville High School football players accused of raping a 16-year girl who lives across the river in West Virginia. Charges that the athletes were getting preferential treatment in the early days of the investigation helped fuel interest in the case.

Lawyers gave closing arguments Saturday evening. The presentations followed 100 minutes of testimony by the 16-year-old girl who prosecutors said was sexually assaulted in the morning of Aug. 12 following a string of parties.

The teen testified it wasn't her choice to report the incident to the police.

She described waking up in the morning after the parties and being naked, scared and embarrassed, and had no idea where she was.

She said she soon tried to piece together from social media and other teens what happened after she drank alcohol and left a party with a then-16-year-old quarterback for the Big Red football team whom she liked.

She said her only other memory was a flash of vomiting in the middle of a street and someone holding her hair.

Soon she learned that a nude photo of her, lying on a couch, was being passed around town. And there was the 12-minute video of a just-graduated teen bashing her and saying she was raped and calling her "a dead body."

"Honestly, I was praying that everything I heard wasn't true," she testified. She didn't want to be the center of drama, especially in a small town, everybody-knows-everybody atmosphere. "I thought everybody would blame me."

The teen was at least partially right. As word of the reported rape got around it divided the Ohio Valley area into two camps – those who supported the accused and said she drank and probably willingly engaged in sexual acts with the two teen boys who are charged; and those who were appalled and believed the football players would get special treatment because the sport is central to the city’s psyche.

Defense attorneys who later briefly questioned the teen girl wondered aloud whether the reason that she believed and told people she was drugged and assaulted was because what was being said publicly looked bad.

“You want to look better than you do, right?” Attorney Adam Nemann, who represents the former high school quarterback said. “It’s a lot easier to say you were drugged, right?”

She disagreed.

On Aug. 14, after taking the teen to a medical center in her hometown of Weirton, her parents decided to go to police. She testified that she sat in the car.

“You never wanted to go to court on charges did you,” asked Marianne Hemmeter, a special prosecutor with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

“No,” the girl said, who has the 28th witness to testify during the trial, which began Wednesday.

Hemmeter told Lipps during closing arguments that it was clear the girl was drunk, and the defendants took advantage.

"They treated her like a toy. She was the perfect victim," she said.

Lipps heard the trial without a jury.

Adam Nemann, a lawyer for the quarterback, said in his closing arguments that although some of the evidence in the case was shocking, it did not prove his client's guilt. He called into question the testimony of teen witnesses, many of whom were also drinking.

Walter Madison, a defense lawyer who represented the football player charged, said the girl is known to lie, as he tried to establish in court earlier Saturday when two former friends of the girl said she sometimes did.

The girl testified that in the days that followed the parties, she and the boy traded text messages. She demanded to know what happened. He was more interested in what might happen to him.

"[Football coach] Reno just called my house and said I raped you," said a partial text message from the boy read in court Saturday by Hemmeter.

"You do so know what happened. There's nothing on video so nothing happened," another text said. "This is the most pointless thing that I am going to get in trouble for. I should be thanked for taking care of you."

But he was also worried about football, according to the text messages.

“Like, I’m about to get kicked off the football team,” he wrote.

She replied that it was making her mad that “all he cared about was football.”

In one message she said she had trusted him. "But you and your friend humiliated me. I really wish you were the guy I thought you were," she wrote.

Before communication was cut off, the girl testified the she sent the boy a text that said, "We know you didn't rape me."

Hemmeter asked her if, at the time, she knew digital penetration amounted to rape under the law.

She said she didn't.

In the most outwardly emotional moment of the testimony, Hemmeter showed the 16-year-old a photo of herself that she had not seen. In the photo, she is lying on the tan carpet of a basement floor, naked and on her stomach. Her arms are underneath her body.

The girl began to cry, as did some of her family members, many of whom were wearing teal ribbons and the color teal, which is identified with supporting survivors of sexual assault.

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